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The high school spring sports seasons are underway, with the golf team hitting the links in their first meet on Monday, March 28th, and the track team set to run, jump, and throw in Lockwood at their first meet on Tuesday, April 5th. Track Coach Jerry Coulter returns for his 32nd season of coaching the high school team. Coulter is actively looking for an assistant coach to help out, he told us during a Monday interview. “An assistant coach doesn’t need to have competed in track, I just need a parent or another adult to act as another set of...
By PR Extension Office Participants at the March session for Big Sky Big Leadership (BSBL) learned more about their personality type through a Real Colors workshop led by Tara Andrews, retired Custer County Extension Agent. "Understanding the preferences of prospective employees is very helpful in providing the correct job or task," explained Andrews. "It can be the difference in setting up someone for success or failure," she added. Real Colors, a temperament theory designed by David K...
By Connie Barnhart Seventh grader, Eli Jurica and eighth grader, Darren VerWolf have been busy this semester during Enrichment class building a Bee-Dee Bot robot and learning to code it to do specific functions. After the construction process of Bee-Dee, Darren and Eli coded the robot to perform specific challenges such as sending SOS signals with red and green lights, going forward and raising a robotic arm to produce a turning signal. Next they coded the robot to drive out of a parking spot...
Steps for Charity marks the end of the two-month competition this Thursday, March 31st. All steps taken from March 28th through March 31st can be reported to the Powder River County MSU Extension office at any time after the 31st. Getting outside since it’s been so nice is how Olivia Hills, member of The Purrfect Moovers, got her steps in last week. The Bombers, who are Ligaya and Angela Batarilan, Teresa Dudek and Casey Knobloch got their steps by walking the trail at Theodore Roosevelt National Park in North Dakota. There are two a...
By PR Extension Office A balance training seminar has been scheduled for Monday, April 4th, at 10 a.m., at the Powder River Senior Center in Broadus. The free 1-hour event will teach participants about fall risk, types of balance and methods of balance training and fall prevention. Montana State University Aging Research Collective and the Powder River County MSU Extension Office are organizing the event. Thirty percent of older Montanans fall each year and older adults in rural communities are more likely to experience a fall than their u...
Annual subscription cost is $38 in county, $39 out of county, and $40 out of state. Please mail checks to: Powder River Examiner, PO Box 328, Broadus, MT 59317. We will also mail an invoice as a reminder. Feel free to drop payments in the payment box on our front door, located across the street to the west of the courthouse square. Another option for renewal is online, at www.powderriverexaminer.com, or by emailing us at [email protected] and we will send an invoice to pay online. Wayne Alderman, Spearfish, SD Paul Almen, Broadus Kirk &...
Six Broadus basketball players made the District 4C All Conference teams for their exemplary play in the 2021-22 season, including Zeason Schaffer, Sophomore, 2nd Team Girls, Abi Krantz, Junior, 1st Team Girls, Wyatt Gee, Senior, and Dillon Gee, Junior, 1st Team Boys, Marcus Mader, Junior, 1st Team Boys, and Tytan Hanson, Junior, 2nd Team Boys. Krantz, both Gee brothers, and Mader also made the Class C All-State team....
March 31, 1922 First Cattle to be Turned Out on the Open Range Dan Harvey and Mike Reardon on Bowers Creek this week turned their cattle onto the open range. S.J. Blankenbaker, who returned yesterday from a trip to that part of the county, says the stock are in good condition and that there is sufficient dry grass from last year to last until the new crop comes. Ray. F. Tarbell, who has been feeding cattle on the Fred W. Rue ranch, Little Powder River, yesterday turned them out to graze the open range. March 28, 1947 Red Cross Sent Relief...
HELENA, Montana — As we approach another 4/06 day, Montana will look to remain the “406” for well into the future thanks to the Montana Public Service Commission’s efforts to ensure phone numbers are allocated more efficiently across the state. The “406” area code is currently forecasted for exhaustion in late 2027. However, the PSC recently delivered comments to the Federal Communications Commission asking that Montana be given a waiver from FCC rules that would otherwise go into effect during a three-year planning period when a state antic...
By Morgan Weller On Saturday, March 26th, we had a "Shoot-Out Tobacco" event at Seabecks Pizza and Subs, where each contestant had 90 seconds to make as many free-throws as possible. Our first prize winner was Marcus Mader with 11 shots, a close second Given Hopkins with 10 shots, and our third place winner Faith Hopkins with 5 shots. The Montana Tobacco Quit Line offers FREE general and individualized programs to help stop tobacco use. All programs are staffed with dedicated certified...
Monday, February 28, 2022 Chairman Lee Randall called the meeting to order at 8:30 a.m. in the Commissioner’s office, Powder River County Courthouse. Commissioners Donna Giacometto and John Olson were present. 8:45 a.m. - Road update was postponed to later in the day. 9:30 a.m. - Medical Administrator Sean Hill met with the board. He reported 27 residents. He stated the phone system will be installed March 1, 2022. The bath area is finished. Hill updated on the mask requirements by CMS. Transitioning to a rural clinic status is still in the p...
Powder River Co. Sheriff’s Office Austin Atkins, Sidney, MT, speeding in restricted zone (39/30) $55. Martin Benitez, Avondale, AZ, daytime speeding (82/70) $70. Oswar Monsalve Vargas, Katy, TX, speeding in restricted zone (85/65) $85. Mark Jesttes 2, Broadus, MT, forgery- less than $1500, pled guilty, fined $185, restitution to be paid. Kyle Pew, Kannapolis, NC, speeding in restricted zone (94/65) $105. MHP Trent Boudreaux, Lafayette, IN, speeding in restricted zone (75/65) $55. Mia Seppanen, Vienna, SD, speeding in restricted zone (75/65) $...
Jesse Barnhart, Broadus 1st grader, won first place along with a coveted bison skull trophy in the 6U 76lb heavyweight division at the Montana Open Wrestling Tournament, last weekend in Billings. The event featured 2,400 wrestlers, including a number of youth classes as well as an open class where around 80 adults competed. Barnhart, competing in his second year of competition, is the son of Elliott and Abbey Barnhart of Broadus. His younger brother Tizer also competed in the 6U 61lb class,...
